Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

I'm going to start working on an image update shortly. I was reading Charley Reese's column this morning (worth reading), and I realized something… At this point it's pretty clear that — all conspiracy theories aside — the US government, if not directly involved, not only allowed, but encouraged the 9/11 attacks both by fanning the flames and by actively blocking investigation into the people involved.

The end result of that was exactly what the Pentagon and the defense sector had hoped: an enormous increase in the amount of spending in their arena (resulting in lots of poorly made equipment which resulted in needless death of people on both sides). However, Americans aren't going to let their government screw them over like this forever, so the government has been issuing these ludicrous and over-the-top terror warnings that get increasingly silly — even things like stating that the next attacks will come via scuba divers.

Now we're even getting warned (and being movie'd) that the next attack may well be nuclear, and will definitely be worse than 9/11. However, no evidence or specifics have ever been presented, not a single one of the warnings has even vaguely come true, and it's pretty damn clear that it's nothing but fearmongering to keep America's citizens in support of the war spending. Read that: not in support of war, but in support of war spending. That's what the Bush administration cares about.

Let's assume for a moment that Osama yo Mama doesn't have a nuke in Los Angeles or the capability to do any real damage to the US (because as horrible as it is, the 9/11 attack was minor, and far less than many countries have dealt with in recent history). That means that eventually Americans will eventually get fed up with all this fearmongering (and I think they are already getting there). Which leaves the current US government with two options:

1. Back down, admit it was all lies, lose their war grants, and get voted out of power in the next election.
2. Stage a domestic attack personally, or allow/help a terrorist group to do so.

In the entire history of the world, governments doing the first is virtually unheard of. The second option though America now knows it just saw happen with the 9/11 attacks. In addition, at this point we've all seen (well all of us that read the news) the recently FOIA'd plans drawn up by the Pentagon in the sixties to bomb US cities and blame it on Cuba in an attempt to allow them to attack Cuba.

So yes, America, you're getting attacked again.
…but don't think you need to look farther than your own borders to find your terrorists!